A paramount doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a belief in God the Father, his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. The three make up the Godhead. They are one in purpose ...

Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the ...

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike. My own church has a stone structure by a creek in Johnson City, ...

(1) The religious associations of pagans, i.e. of those who had or have no clear knowledge of the one true God. Among them every people has its own gods, religion coincides with nationality and lives ...

The earliest extra-biblical surviving historical record of the Church comes from Eusebius (c. 260-339), a bishop of Caesarea in Palestine. For that reason alone, Eusebius’s History of the Church is ...

An open-air Mass in Brazil on May 17, 1888, commemorating the abolition of slavery. (Alamy) It was the morning of May 24, 1888, and a large, ethnically diverse crowd waited in the Sala Ducale of the ...

In my introduction I mentioned five historical errors made by Viola that are critical. An underlying critique for me is Viola’s use of footnotes, but rather than focus on this I am going to point to ...

Today we are pleased to welcome Lynneth Miller to the Anxious Bench. Lynneth is a PhD candidate in the Baylor History department specializing in British and Women’s History. She holds an MLitt from St ...

Church history is a combination of history and theology. We examine Christianity, Christians and churches as well as religious movements and phenomena – the dynamics of the past that continue to shape ...

A survey of the history of Christianity starting with the second century Mediterranean world, with particular attention to the role of women in the Christian movement and the encounters between ...